Death is not the greatest loss in life.The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.- Norman Cousins

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.- Henry David Thoreau

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.- Albert Schweitzer

When someone you love dies,you don't lose them all at once.You lose them in pieces over time- the movie Simon Birch

The unpredictable and irregular happeningsof life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.The lion eats the zebra -one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love never dies a natural death. It dies becausewe don't know how to replenish its source.It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.It dies of illness and wounds;it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.- Anais Nin

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.- Langston Hughes

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't die with your music still inside you.- Wayne Dyer

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.- Mark Twain

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.- William Shakespeare

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me bestthat I always plucked a thistle and planted a flowerwhere I thought a flower would grow.- Abraham Lincoln

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,only how you're going to live.- Joan Baez

Dream as if you'll live forever.Live as if you'll die today.- James Dean

I submit to you that if a man hasn'tdiscovered something that he will die for,he isn't fit to live.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be avid.Create apart from perfection.Risk failure.Cover your words with sweat.Run a littleTouch excruciatingly.Laugh until you cry.Dance with your eyes closed.Care.Understand you die a little in every moment.Be Enlivened- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.The process never ends until we die.And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.- Eleanor Roosevelt

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.- John F. Kennedy

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,he isn't fit to live.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am prepared to die, but there is no causefor which I am prepared to kill.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,the longer shall we be immortal.- Benjamin Franklin

To everything there is a season,and a time to every purpose under heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die.- Ecclesiastes 3:1

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live your life so that when you die,the world cries and you rejoice.- Indian Proverb

Only put off until tomorrowwhat you are willing to die having left undone.- Pablo Picasso

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Farewell My FriendIt was beautiful as long as it lastedThe journey of my life.I have no regrets whatsoeversave the pain I'll leave behind.Those dear hearts who love and care...And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...The strong arms that held me upWhen my own strength let me down.At every turning of my lifeI came across good friends,Friends who stood by me,Even when the time raced me by.Farewell, farewell my friendsI smile and bid you goodbye.No, shed no tears for I need them notAll I need is your smile.If you feel sad do think of mefor that's what I'll likewhen you live in the heartsof those you love, remember thenyou never die.- Gitanjali Ghei

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.If they would only expend the sameamount of energy loving their fellow men,the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.- Helen Keller

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.Learn as if you were to live forever.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.- Henry David Thoreau

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,a belief in the grace of God so assured thata man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.- Martin Luther

Alas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them!- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedomand die the death for freedom.- Charles G. Adams

Speeches that are measured by the hourwill die with the hour.- Thomas Jefferson

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.Only through our love and friendship can wecreate the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.- Orson Welles

My father always used to say that when you die,if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.- Lee Iacocca

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.- John Lennon

Let us all be brave enoughto die the death of a martyr,but let no one lust for martyrdom.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,but if I touched her, she would die.While not quite as delicate as butterflies,people also need private space and private timeaway from the demands of the world -even away from the attentions of thosewith whom they are most bonded.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

While I thought that I was learning how to live,I have been learning how to die.- Leonardo da Vinci

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.They die up to a point.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Tragedy is when I cut my finger.Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.- Mel Brooks

I believe that a man is the strongest soldierfor daring to die unarmed.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Be careful about reading health books.You may die of a misprint.- Mark Twain

Time to Die:A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?""This is natural," explained the teacher."Everything has to die and has just so long to live."The student showed the shattered cup, saying,"It was time for your cup to die."- Traditional Zen Koan

The end of the human race will be thatit will eventually die of civilization.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,if I did not laugh I should die.- Abraham Lincoln

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little,at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.- The Buddha

I intend to live forever, or die trying.- Groucho Marx

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die,but from which he cannot resign.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die;what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams,whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things,and what we do to make them come about.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not choose our historical epoch,the country of our birth,or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.We do not, most of us, choose to die;nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.- Joseph Epstein

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot,we must ourselves be its author and finisher.As a nation of freemen, we must livethrough all time, or die by suicide.- Abraham Lincoln

I Did Not DieDo not stand at my grave and weep;I am not there. I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow.I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn's rain,When you awaken in the morning's hush,I am the swift uplifting rushOf quiet birds in circled flight.I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry;I am not there. I did not die.- Anonymous

The child in me could not die as it should have died,because according too legends it must find its father again.The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absencethe father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized,and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for.The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human,as man who created a child and then, by his absence,left the child fatherless and then Godless.- Anais Nin

The highest result of education is tolerance.Long ago men fought and died for their faith;but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethrenand their rights of conscience.- Helen Keller

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.Rather we should thank God that such men lived.- George S. Patton

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-agesthat holds the key to breaking ourcycle of self-imposed suffering.The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea thatlife was "supposed" to be "fair,"and all the trouble started -expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -a whole cycle of suffering that beganwith the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Memorial Day remains one of America'smost cherished patriotic observances.The spirit of this day has not changed -it remains a day to honor those whodied defending our freedom and democracy.- Doc Hastings

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.- Wayne Dyer

A mind at peace, a mind centeredand not focused on harming others,is stronger than any physical force in the universe.- Wayne Dyer

Abundance is not something we acquire.It is something we tune into.- Wayne Dyer

Simply put, you believe that thingsor people make you unhappy,but this is not accurate.You make yourself unhappy.- Wayne Dyer

Failure does not exist.Failure is simply someone else's opinion of howa certain act should have been completed.Once you believe that no act must be performedin any specific other-directed way,then failing becomes impossible.- Wayne Dyer